Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-04-30
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sEciety, every business ;-firmsand eve
,:Iry banking and insurance institu
eEtion. Those men wllo:llaves no ca.
!. pacity to keepSa. secretsare nntiF TO
Eposltions of trust any where. Their
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:Eneed scattering a capacity to keeI
I a secret Menstalk- too cl,,FanG
!, women too. There is.a tlnestt
keep ssilencesas well as a timests
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(which hiaslla slists sdsrn SI0s
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!: of praise for those associations
which have for their oDjectthe
maintenance ofrightagain ,twrong
or che reclamation ofinsb ties, Oh
like the score Of mutual benefit so
cieties, called By different names,
that provide temporary relief for
widows and orphans, and for mon
incapacitated By sickness or ACCT
dent IRON earning q livelihood
Hld 1t not been for the largo NUN
Der of secret labor or tauizations-in
this country monopoly would long
ago have, under it's .ponlerouS
wheels, ground the laborIng class
into an intolerable servitu lie. Tie
men who want the whole earsh to
themselves would have got it be
fore this, had it not been for the
banding together of great secret
organizations. Aud, while we de-
plore many things that have been
done by them, their existence is a
necessity, aud their l4gitimate
sphere distinctly pointed out by
the providence of God. Such or
CARNATIONS are trying to dism SIS
from their association all members
in favor of anarchy and social chI-
os. They will gradually cease ANY.
thing like tyranny over their mem
bers and will forbid violent intsc-
ference with any mans work, wileth.
CT he belongs to their union or is
outside of it, aud will declare their
disgust with any such rifle as that
passed in England by the M1nches:
ter Bricklayer's Association, which
says any man found running or
working beyond a regular speed,
shall BE- fined two shillings and six
pence for the first offence, five shil.
lings for the second, ten shilliags
for the third aud if still persisting
shall be dealt with as the committee
think proper. There are secret so
cietles in our colleges that have
letters of the Greek alphabat for
! their.nom epclatrre, and thsirmep-
bers are at the very front in schol-
larship and irreproachable IN NOR.
ais, while there are others the
scene of carousaI, and they gam Die,
and they drink, and they graduate
knowing IL hundred times more
abodt sin than they do of ge)me-
try and Sophocles. In oth1r words
secret societies,li like nlivi'luals,itre
good or bad, or the means OF moral
health or Of temporal and eternal
damnatlon. All good people re-
cognize the vice of slan'lering an
individual, but m my do not seq
the sin of slanderiny an orgauiza
ton.
There are old secret societies in
this and other countries, soma of
them centuries old, which have
been widely denounced as immoral
and damaging in their Influence,
yet 1 have hundreds of personal
friends who belong 70 them, friends
who are consecrated to God, pillars
in the church, faithful in all rela
tions of life, examples in virtue aud
piety. They are the kind Of friends
whom I would have for my execu-
tors if l am so happy as to leave
anything for my hou sehold at the
time of deceasc, and they are the
men whom | would have carry me
out to the last sleep when | am
dead. You cannot make me be
lievc that they would belong to bad
institutions. They are the men
who would stamp on everything in.
lquitous, and | would certainly
rather take their testimony in re
gard to such societies than the ties
timony- of those who, having been
sworn in as members, by their as
sault upon the society confess
themselves perjurers. One of these
secret societies gave for the relief
of the sick in 1878, in this country,
81, 49O,274. Some Of these socie
ties have poured very heaven oil
sunshine and benediction into the
homes of suffering. Several OF them
are founded on fidelity to good cit
izensLip and he Bible. ] have new
er taken one OF their degrees. They
might give me the grip a thousand
times, and would not recognize il,
[ am ignorant Of their pass words.
and | IN list judge entirely by the
outside. But Christ has given us
a rule by which we may judge not
only all Individuals, but societies.
secret and open. by their fruits
| w., shall 1-Mo,u fha,p Dad cnotntinc